Fungicide Products for Chickpea

Seed Treatments

Fungicide / Manufacturer / Active Ingredient / Disease / Rate
(refer to label)
LSP / Gustafson / Thiabendazole / ascochyta blight / 3 fl oz/100 lbs seed
Maxim 4FS / Syngenta / Fludioxonil / Various seedling blights / 0.08-0.16 fl oz/100 lbs seed
Allegiance / Gustafson / Metalaxyl / Pythium seedling blight / 0.75 fl oz/100 lbs seed
Apron XL / Syngenta / Mefanoxam / Pythium seedling blight / 0.16-0.64 fl oz/100 lbs seed

Foliar Treatment Fungicides

Bravo Weatherstik Zn / Syngenta / Chlorothalonil / Ascochyta blight / 1 3/8-2 pts/Ac / Apply at 7-10 day intervals
Do not apply more than 4 x’s
14 day PHI
Do not graze livestock on treated foliage.
Bravo Ultrex / Syngenta / Chlorothalonil / Ascochyta Blight / 1.25-1.8 lbs/A / Same as above
Headline / BASF / Ascochyta Blight / Refer to label / Refer to label

On Ascochyta Blight from Dr. M. Draper, SDSU, Associate Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist

My recommendations for managing this disease are:

1) Rotate away from chickpeas 3 out of four years,

2) Buy the best seed lot possible with the lowest level of Ascochyta contamination,

3)Treat the seed with LSP seed treatment,

4) Plant to treat with Bravo at the first sign of disease,

5) Treat with Quadris/Headline (assuming the labels are approved) 10-14 days later if cool wet conditions persist,

6) If a third treatment is needed, use Bravo again.

This is a worst case solution. Most growers will not consider three fungicide applications. If only one treatment is used, Quadris/Headline could be that treatment, butDO NOT follow that treatment with a secondapplication of the same product.